Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, even with Bing disabled

Re:Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, e... by to3m on Monday August 10, 2015 @07:42PM (#10038212)

I rarely use the Spotlight or Start Menu keyboard searching because of stuff like this. If it doesn't reliably produce the right result each time if you only type a small amount of the name - which it doesn't - what's the point?

(Call me crazy, but because of this I've come to not mind the basic Windows 8 start screen. It's not as good as the classic start menu, but compared to the Windows 7 one you can at least arrange it for quick access to a larger number of programs.)

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Re:Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, e... by ZoFreX on Monday August 10, 2015 @09:18PM (#10038566)

This. I previously loved Spotlight but it's getting strange in its old age. For example, if I type "i" or "it" or "ite" or "iter", Spotlight predicts "iTerm". But if I actually type "iTerm" in full it takes me to "Go2Shell" in the App Store – because it has the word "iterm" in the patch notes of the most recent version. Useful.

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Re:Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, e... by almostdvs on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @10:26PM (#10045667)

I use quicksilver and gnome do and launchy. The searches never worked the way should for me either.

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